BRAVE Southeast Asia Tech: Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand & Malaysia Startups, Founders & Venture Capital VC (English)

Sadaf is the Founder of Finprojections.com , a financial modelling resource hub for startup founders. Finprojections seeks to make financial modeling accessible by providing standards-based, rigorous Excel-based templates that can be used to build any kind of startup projections irrespective of industry. Sadaf brings his extensive experience working as an investor and advising startups in the region. Sadaf worked for DWMarkets, a private equity firm focused on investing in financial services. In a personal capacity, Sadaf mentored startups in SEA as a 500 Startups mentor. Sadaf started his career in investment banking at Goldman Sachs, and transitioned into his investing career with the IFC, the private investment arm of the World Bank. Beyond investing and financial models, Sadaf is passionate about expanding education access through technology. After IFC, Sadaf took a break from his investing career to return to his home country of Bangladesh to work at BYLC, a social enterprise promoting leadership education for his nation’s youth. He helped BYLC adopt digital channels of dissemination to make leadership education more widely accessible in his country. Sadaf completed his MBA from INSEAD  Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/sadaf-sultan You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/sadaf-sultan

Michi has spent over five years working in social enterprises across the United States, Africa and Southeast Asia, with a focus on education and the future of work. Her most recent full-time role was at the African Leadership University, where she was part of the founding team that built and launched a 6-month intensive work readiness program for recent college graduates in Kenya. Currently, Michi is helping to set up an early-stage education fund in East Africa before starting her full-time role as a consultant at Bain and Company. She is the co-founder of KadaKareer, a start-up non-profit that provides career development support and resources to underserved Filipino youth hoping to enter the digital space. Michi recently graduated with an MBA from Harvard Business School, where she was a Horace Goldsmith Fellow, and received a BA in Sociology, cum laude, from Harvard College Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/michi-ferreol You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/michi-ferreol

Adzmel is one of the Co-Founding Partners of Piva Capital, a venture capital firm based in San Francisco investing in deep tech and climate tech companies across North America and Europe. The firm is currently investing from its inaugural $250 million fund, backed by PETRONAS. As one of the founding Partners of Piva, Adzmel was instrumental in setting up the firm’s investment strategy. Piva focuses its investment activities in early stage breakthrough technology companies that are changing the way the world works and consumes energy; companies at the intersection of product-market fit and demand inflection for faster scale-up. Prior to his investing career, Adzmel spent more than a decade in the energy sector across various engineering, technical and business management roles. Before he left for San Francisco, Adzmel was instrumental in launching PETRONAS Ventures, the corporate venture arm of PETRONAS. Adzmel grew up in Malaysia, spent 7 years of his early childhood in boarding schools before going to read Mechanical Engineering at University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland where he graduated with a MEng. He also holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and is currently completing his Kauffman Fellowship under the mentorship of Robert E. Siegel. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/adzmel-adznan You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/adzmel-adznan

Zelia is the Co-Founder of PraisePal - The Peer Recognition tool for companies with global teams to grow employee engagement and build stronger culture. No matter where or how their employees work. She also co-founded travel curator Anywhr, which was part of Google For Startups' Blackbox Scholarship and Google Demo Day Asia. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/zelia-leong You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/zelia-leong

Co-Founder and CTO of Strive Education (YCS21), teaching K12 math through code via live 1:1 online classes. Tamir is a 3x startup founder, namely Quillo South Africa's largest online 2nd hand textbook marketplace and Insupply, where Tamir worked with the South African presidency to get PPE to front line workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/tamir-shklaz You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/tamir-shklaz

Amra is Co-Founder of Accelerating Asia and General Partner at Accelerating Asia Ventures, an award-winning startup accelerator that scouts and propels the best founders in the region and provides pre-Series A startups with the resources and investment to scale their growth. Amra is passionate about working to close the gap between commercial and social sectors and supporting for profit businesses to exceed commercial KPIs while driving social impact. She is the Asia Pacific lead for Shaper Impact Capital, a Singapore Global Shaper, an initiative of the World Economic Forum and is the host and creator of the Doing Good Podcast. For close to a decade this passion has driven Amra’s innovative approach to program execution and partnerships that intersect both business and social objectives. Amra has spearheaded high-impact partnerships local, regional and globally. Her successful campaign and project outcomes consistently achieve results. Previously Amra led the award-winning UN Women Singapore global social entrepreneurship program, Project Inspire and was a key contributor to muru-D’s wide recognition as one of the top startup accelerator programs in Asia. She has been interviewed and featured as a guest author on industry blogs, including The Straits Times, Techcrunch, Reuters and named as one of Harpers Bazaar’s Women Who Inspire Others. She also is a regular guest on 938Now’s drive-time show – Singapore’s national English news radio station. Amra regularly speaks about the intersection of business and impact, including at global events such as Money 20/20 (Singapore), Singularity University Impact Challenge (Poland) and the Asia Corporate Sustainability Summit (Philippines). Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/amra-naidoo You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/amra-naidoo

An established Market Research expert and a known face amongst Asian clients, Rajiv Lamba holds an invaluable accumulative experience of more than 20 years in the field of market research spanning across the FMCG segment and with proven records of building ‘Quality Leaders for Tomorrow’ Rajiv founded Neurosensum in 2018 which led to an impressive transformation in the world of market research by combining conventional methods with a neuroscience-based approach. A year later, with an intent of making consumer insights real-time and affordable for enterprises, Rajiv also built an AI-Enabled Customer & Employee Experience Measurement and Improvement Platform called Surveysensum that analyzes customer feedback and any unstructured data in real-time, enabling enterprises to get meaningful insights at an affordable price in no time. A truly positive person who considers his employees as the biggest asset, Rajiv has pioneered the use of Neuroscience and Artificial intelligence for consumer research in Asia and continues to empower innovative solutions to create customer-centric mindfulness. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/rajiv-lamba You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/rajiv-lamba

Calvin Chu Yee Ming is Managing Partner of Eden Strategy Institute, an award-winning strategy consulting firm that specializes in social innovation. Over the past decade, Eden has advised corporations like Bell Labs, General Electric, and Samsung; multilateral organizations such as UNDP, UNESCO, and UN Women; as well as governments in Singapore, New Zealand, and Saudi Arabia co-create sustainable value propositions, develop strategic roadmaps, and assess the impact of their interventions. Passionate about the interplay between businesses objectives and societal impact, Calvin is also Associate Lecturer in Strategy and Organization with the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. He has served on the boards of Biofourmis, Conjunct Consulting, Credence Labs, Rotary Club, the World Toilet Organisation, and as President of the Chicago Booth Alumni Club of Singapore. He was inducted into the International Who’s Who of Professionals in 2009 and recognised as a NetImpact Changemaker in 2014. Most of his free time these days is spent exploring nature trails with his two young children. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/calvin-chu You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/calvin-chu

Joseph is a 1x exit founder, serial entrepreneur, angel investor, and a father of a beautiful daughter. He runs his family business that operates in technology, infrastructure, bio-technology, and natural resources industries. He is also involved as an advisor to several startups, as well as launching his own new startup venture in the social commerce space to help non-formal ecommerce sellers sell easier. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/joseph-simbar You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/joseph-simbar

Raimie is the Co-Founder and CEO of dateideas , a mobile app that provides couples with unique date experiences for their every date. Today, Raimie runs the largest community of couples in Singapore. Raimie graduated with a double degree in Engineering and Business from the National University of Singapore. As an NUS Overseas Colleges Scholar, he spent one year in Silicon Valley working with the brightest minds while taking classes in Stanford University. Passionate about disruption, Raimie dedicates his life towards solving extremely challenging problems which uniquely sit on the crossroads between deeply-entrenched social problems and technological innovation. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/raimie-tang You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/raimie-tang